Position: President, Chief Executive Officer & Director
Mr. Hinchcliffe worked as Chief Financial Officer of Kirkland Lake Gold Inc. (TSX - KGI) from January 2003 until February 2005, wherein the company raised over $50 million in funds to re-commission the Kirkland Lake Gold Mine and for exploration purposes. Prior to that, he worked for seven years on Wall Street as a Mining Analyst for Prudential Securities, SG Cowen, and Santander Investment, covering U.S., International, and Latin American mining companies, in addition to other sectors. Prior to that he spent 4 years working for Jordex Resources in Venezuela where he played a primary role in the identification and then development of a nickel deposit which was later sold for $65 million to Anglo American.
Mr. Hinchcliffe has a M.B.A. from Georgetown University, and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Arizona (with a concentration in Mining & Geology). Mr. Hinchcliffe has over 20 years working in the mining industry, and is fluent in Spanish.
Position: Director
Mr. Strauss has 18 years of experience as a mining and commodities analyst in both Canada and the United States. He was most recently a Director at GMP Securities, where he spent seven years as a well regarded mining analyst. During his time with GMP, the firm landed advisory roles on mergers and acquisitions, and raised several billion dollars for many leading international mining companies, including Goldcorp, Kinross Gold, Wheaton River, Bema Gold, Ivanhoe Mines, Northgate Minerals, among others. During his career Mr. Strauss has been awarded "Best on the Street" in the Mining and Metals category by the Wall Street Journal. Earlier in his career, Mr. Strauss worked with Canaccord Capital, Prudential Securities and Merrill Lynch.
Mr. Strauss holds an M.A., Energy and Mineral Resources (cum laude) from the University of Texas at Austin, and a B.S., Geology (honors) from City University of New York at Brooklyn College.
Position: Director
Mr. Doub has over 16 years of investing in high growth international emerging businesses. He is currently a general partner of New Markets Venture Partners, and sits on the Board of several different companies. Prior to this position, Mr. Doub was a Managing Director of SEAF, an emerging market venture capital company managing over $200 million in Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, and Asia. He currently serves on the Board of K2 Alternative Strategies Offshore LTD, a hedge fund of funds managed by K2 Advisors, a leading multibillion dollar hedge fund of funds. Mr. Doub also serves on the Conflicts Advisory Board of the off-shore hedge funds managed by Deutsche Asset Management's Absolute Return Strategies Group.
Mr. Doub graduated from the University of Vermont, with a major in History, and received a MBA with Honors from Georgetown University.
Position: Director
Mr. Orsolani has 28 years experience in international business, spanning the United States, Japan, Europe and Latin America. Mr. Orsolani started his career as a management consultant with Arthur D. Little, Inc. U.S.A., later taking positions in marketing, planning, finance and general management in several industries, including commodities (aluminum, nickel and oil) and specialty chemicals (industrial gases, paint).
Mr. Orsolani was the Chief Financial Officer of a nickel project owned by Jordex Resources, a Toronto Stock Exchange listed company, which was sold to Anglo American for $65 million. The project is now a producing nickel mine in Venezuela. Mr. Orsolani was also the President of an industrial gas company that had over 400 employees and had an investment program in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Mr. Orsolani has served as a member of the board of directors of a United States based aluminum extrusion company (with sales of $250 million), and a primary aluminum company with sales of $400 million. He was also a board member of an electric utility with 13,000 MW of installed capacity.
Mr. Orsolani holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela; he also holds two masters' degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), an MBA from the Sloan School and also a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Mr. Orsolani is fluent in English and Spanish.